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The little one took to the dance floor to spin with her date at the dance on Wednesday night

Happy feet: Sgt. Bierbrodt answered Cayleigh's mother's request for a National Guard volunteer, thinking about his own four children he's escorted to such dances

She was then escorted to her school, Our Lady of Humility School in Beach Park, in a limo with a procession of a veterans' motorcycle club and members of area police and fire departments.

At the party the Cayleigh and the sergeant took to the dance floor. Sgt. Bierbrodt, decked out in his official uniform, twirled the little girl gleefully around and let her dance on his feet.

Cayleigh had been practicing for this dancing moment saying, 'I'm very good at it'.

As for her mother, she said she couldn't be happier with her daughter's special night and that Cayleigh's father was there alongside with them.

'He's definitely here in spirit. I heard Cayleigh talking to him while she was getting ready, and I have no doubt she has him with her tonight,' Jillian Hinton said.

Sgt. Hinton died in a military truck crash when the driver lost control of the vehicle last May

Scene of the accident: The out-of-control vehicle slammed into a guardrail (above), flipped over, and crashed into a culvert

Hinton, 36, died at the scene. He had also served in Afghanistan in 2010 and Kuwait in 2014

Sgt. Hinton died in Honoululu while sitting in the passenger seat of a tractor-trailer truck hauling heavy equipment that flipped over and crashed.

The driver of the truck who was a 20-year-old soldier, lost control of the vehicle which struck a guardrail and flipped in a culvert. The crash wrecked the vehicle and killed Sgt. Hinton.

Sgt. Hinton was 36 and had served in Afghanistan in 2010 and Kuwait in 2014 before moving to Hawaii in 2016.

'For 28 years before he was a soldier, he was her son and he was a brother and he was a husband and he was a friend and he was an upstanding member of the community,' said wife Jillian, speaking to 24 Hour News 8 from Illinois.